How Social Media Rewired Our Minds & Our World with Max Fisher

Start: Saturday, November 12, 2022 2:30PM
End: Saturday, November 12, 2022 3:30PM

We’ve all been told too much social media is bad for us, but why is that? At the Chicago Humanities Festival, New York Times investigative reporter and author of The Chaos Machine Max Fisher explains how, through the pursuit of unfettered profits and maximum engagement, Big Tech has rewired our minds, and instigated a cultural shift toward polarization and misinformation. Join him and David Pierce (editor at large at The Verge) for a behind-the-scenes look at how social networks prey on psychological frailties, driving people to extreme opinions and actions. A book signing will follow this program. This program is presented in partnership with The Verge.